 | John Owen - 1851 - 668 pages
...mind in drawing it off from its watch and circumspection. Says the wise man, Prov. i. 1 7, " Surely in vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird;" or " before the eyes of every thing that hath a wing," as in the original If it hath eyes open to discern... | |
 | John Barclay - 1852 - 292 pages
...say I, if we think all is well, when nothing is so in reality, but only in semblance and show ; for in vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird. Damnable lies and heresies, like contraband merchandise, are most successfully brought iu privily.... | |
 | Moses Stuart - 1852 - 464 pages
...— Tfi'ob , with short 5 in the final syllable, because of the Maqqeph which follows. (17) Surely in vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird. i3 cannot be causal here, for this verse assigns no reason or ground of the preceding one. This particle... | |
 | Robert Charles Winthrop - 1852 - 414 pages
...advantage upon which he had so confidently calculated. But I believe it is Solomon who has said, " Surely in vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird." Sir, I saw the trap which the honorable member had laid for me. I knew that he and his peculiar friends... | |
 | Moses Stuart - 1852 - 446 pages
...— Tfttfb , with short u in the final syllable, because of the Maqqeph which follows. (17) Surely in vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird. not unfrequent usage. The writer means to say: 'It is indeed true that the net, etc.' — ifiiTa ,... | |
 | Robert Charles Winthrop - 1852 - 876 pages
...advantage upon which he had so confidently calculated. But I believe it is Solomon who has said, " Surely in vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird." Sir, I saw the trap which the honorable member had laid for me. I knew that he and his peculiar friends... | |
 | David Thomas - 674 pages
...malignant motives. " Jesus perceived their wickedness." They could not impose upon Him. Solomon says, " In vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird." Truly in vain do men spread their crafty nets before Omniscience. Christ's eye penetrated through all... | |
 | Robert Charles Winthrop - 1852 - 802 pages
...advantage upon which he had so confidently calculated. But I believe it is Solomon who has said, " Surely in vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird." Sir, I saw the trap which the honorable member had laid for me. I knew that he and his peculiar friends... | |
 | 1876 - 832 pages
...in our Lord's execution, and other extraordinary treasures of a similar kind, were displayed. But " in vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird." The Islanders were not to be caught by such poor artifices as these. One of them, as the mouthpiece... | |
 | 1853 - 688 pages
...instances the young act more foolishly than the fowls, which have no understanding. We read that ' in vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird.' They will not fly into a snare which they see preparing before their eyes. But foolish men — foolish... | |
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Surely in vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird," or, before the eyes of every thing that hath a wing, as in the original. 
